[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer
From: |
Robert J. Chassell |
Subject: |
Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:36:36 +0000 (UTC) |
... I wonder--would it be useful if the header line displayed at
the top of a window were part of the buffer text, rather than a
feature like the mode line?
That adds complexity to the notion of `buffer'. A policy of
`buffers all the way' would add simplicity.
Instead of remaking a buffer so it has two parts, only one of which is
a window, the `buffers all the way' idea is to make every window
within a frame be a buffer of some sort: tool bar, menu bar, mode
lines, fringes, scroll bars, Info header lines, and the windows
themselves.
For this to work, buffers would need an optional `not-copy-able'
attribute as well as the current attributes. You need to be able to
mark a mode-line as non-copy-able (except when you want to copy it).
(I am using the word `copy' because of the sometimes ambiguous meaning
of the word `read'; a scroll-bar is `readable' by the human looking at
it; but it is not `copy-able'.)
Currently, buffers have the three attributes of
always copy-able
write-able
not-write-able
Currently, mode-lines and the various bars have the two attributes of
not-copy-able
not-write-able
The `buffers all the way' idea requires, among others, four
attributes:
copy-able
not-copy-able
write-able
not-write-able
Also, buffers would have to have location constraints within frames
and between frames. For example, a scroll bar would normally sit
beside the buffer on which it reports and be tall and thin. Of
course, you might want sometimes to put a scroll-bar elsewhere or to
make it a different shape. So you re-write the `scroll-bar buffer'
library. (SCWM `contraints' might provide some ideas for location
constraints.)
A mode-line would be a buffer with these default characteristics:
not-copy-able
not-write-able
dependent on another buffer
always display when other buffer shows
always below the other buffer
one line high, same width as its parent
a specified set of fonts and faces
containing special information, such as name of buffer
If you wanted to copy a visible mode-line, you could change the
`not-copy-able' attribute to `copy-able'; if you wanted to change its
look, you would change its faces.
To save screen space, you could turn off the buffer's variable that
says `always display in this context'. You could, for example, turn
off a scroll-bar by burying it, or by not constructing it. Or you
could hack a tool-bar to show some of the same features as an Info
header line, and avoid the Info header line.
Of course, you can do any of this hacking now; the idea is that with a
single `buffers all the way' policy, conceptualization is easier.
--
Robert J. Chassell address@hidden
Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, (continued)
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Kim F. Storm, 2002/06/12
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Richard Stallman, 2002/06/13
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Kim F. Storm, 2002/06/13
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Kim F. Storm, 2002/06/19
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Stefan Monnier, 2002/06/19
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Kim F. Storm, 2002/06/21
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Kim F. Storm, 2002/06/21
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Richard Stallman, 2002/06/21
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Robert J. Chassell, 2002/06/13
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Andreas Schwab, 2002/06/13
- Message not available
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer,
Robert J. Chassell <=
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Kim F. Storm, 2002/06/13
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Richard Stallman, 2002/06/14
- Patch for emacs-lisp-intro.texi, Christian Egli, 2002/06/17
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Richard Stallman, 2002/06/11
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Kim F. Storm, 2002/06/09
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Richard Stallman, 2002/06/10
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/06/10
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Richard Stallman, 2002/06/09
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Kai Großjohann, 2002/06/09
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Kim F. Storm, 2002/06/09